Overlawyered.com
- Overlawyered.com chronicles the high cost of the legal system through synopses of news articles on frivolous lawsuits, with links provided.
Manhattan
Institute Center for Legal Policy - Our host organization, the Center for Legal Policy develops and communicates thoughtful ideas on the civil justice
system and its reform to real decision-makers.
The CLP's parent institution, the Manhattan Institute, is a think-tank whose mission is to
develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.
Legal Reform Now -
A clearinghouse for legal reform information including news, research,
new and pending cases, and state and federal legislation. A project
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Institute for Legal Reform, sponsored by a diverse coalition
of associations, chambers of commerce, think tanks, and state-based
legal reform groups.
American Justice Partnership -
A project of the National Association of Manufacturers, the nation's largest industrial trade association, the American Justice Partnership brings together leading national and state organizations to coordinate the fight for effective legal reform.
Trial
Lawyers, Inc. - Trial Lawyers, Inc. is the Manhattan Institute's
2003 annual report of the litigation industry, which sheds light
on the industry's size, scope and inner workings.
American Tort Reform
Association - ATRA is a broad-based, bipartisan coalition of
more than 300 businesses, corporations, municipalities, associations,
and professional firms who support civil justice reform.
Chamber
of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform - Affiliated with the
nation's largest business organization, the ILR argues for legal
reform at the national and state levels.
Common Good - Common
Good is a bipartisan initiative to overhaul America's lawsuit culture.
American Legislative
Exchange Council Civil Justice Task Force - The legal reform
task force of this organization of conservative state lawmakers
works to promote systematic fairness in the courts through bills
to discourage frivolous lawsuits, to fairly balance judicial and
legislative authority, and to treat defendants in a consistent manner.
The
Business Roundtable Civil Justice Reform Task Force - An association
of chief executive officers of leading U.S. corporations with a
combined workforce of more than 10 million employees in the United
States, the Business Roundtable develops policy options and implements
action plans to address the civil liability crisis.
Citizens
for a Sound Economy Lawsuit Abuse - This grassroots organization
has fought and won legal reforms at the federal level and the state
level.
HALT - HALT is
a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public interest group dedicated to the
principle that all Americans should be able to handle their legal
affairs simply, affordably and equitably.
National
Association of Manufacturers Fair Litigation Action Group -
FLAG focuses on the importance of fair liability laws and what legal
reform measures are needed to achieve this goal.
National
Federation of Independent Business -
NFIB fights for legal reform that levels the courtroom playing field for small
business.
STATE REFORM ORGANIZATIONS:
Citizens Against
Lawsuit Abuse - These state and local nonprofit, grass roots
organizations are dedicated to putting an end to lawsuit abuse by
educating the public on the effects of lawsuit abuse to create a
climate for civil justice reform.
CALIFORNIA
Central California
Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
Los Angeles
Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
Orange County
Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
San Diego County
Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
Silicon Valley Citizens
Against Lawsuit Abuse
TEXAS
Houston Citizens
Against Lawsuit Abuse
Texans Against Lawsuit
Abuse
LOUISIANA
Louisiana Citizens
Against Lawsuit Abuse
Business
Council of New York State - The Business Council of New York
State tort reform committee works to reform New York's civil justice
laws.
Civil Justice Association
of California - CJAC is a coalition of citizens, taxpayers,
businesses, local governments, professionals, manufacturers, financial
institutions, insurers, and medical organizations dedicated to improving
California's civil liability system.
Illinois Civil Justice
League - ICJL is a coalition of Illinois citizens, small and
large businesses, associations, professional societies, not-for-profit
organizations, and local governments working for fairness in the
Illinois civil justice system.
Illinois Lawsuit
Abuse Watch - I-LAW is a grassroots watchdog group of concerned
citizens, community leaders, small business people and non-profit
organizations dedicated to educating the public about the widespread
costs of lawsuit abuse.
Michigan Lawsuit
Abuse Watch - M-LAW serves as a public watchdog over the state's
court system. Its goal is to eliminate the many negative effects
that lawsuit abuse has on families, job providers and communities.
Mississippians for
Economic Progress - The mission of Mississippians for Economic
Progress is to foster economic progress for all Mississippians by
promoting a fair legal system.
New Yorkers for
Civil Justice Reform - New Yorkers for Civil Justice Reform
is a diverse and broad-based statewide coalition seeking reforms
needed for a civil justice system that is fair for all New Yorkers.
Ohio Businesses for Legal
Reform - Ohio Businesses for Legal Reform (OBLR) is a coalition of key business leaders
joining together to highlight and combat inequities in the civil justice system. Members
include small, medium and large businesses as well as local chambers of commerce and
not-for-profit business associations striving to proactively change the business climate in Ohio.
Tennesseans
for Legal Reform - TLR is a statewide, bipartisan coalition
of nearly 500 businesses, corporations, municipalities, associations,
individuals and professional firms that support civil justice reform.
Texans for
Lawsuit Reform - TLR works to restore balance and justice to
the Texas civil justice system.
Texas Civil Justice
League - The TCJL works to restore fairness and stability to
the Texas civil justice system.
AEI-Brookings
Joint Center for Regulatory Studies - This joint effort of the
American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution attempts
to hold lawmakers and regulators accountable for their decisions
by providing thoughtful, objective analyses of existing regulatory
programs and new regulatory proposals.
Cato
Institute - The libertarian think tank often publishes studies
and opinion pieces consistent with its mission to secure liberty
through limited government and the rule of law.
Mercatus Center - The Mercatus
Center at George Mason University is a research, education, and
outreach organization that works with scholars, policy experts,
and government officials to connect academic learning and real world
practice in the promotion of free market solutions; Mercatus sponsors
some of the country's top scholars in law and economics.
Pacific Research Institute - The mission
of the Pacific Research Institute is to champion freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility
for all individuals by advancing free-market policy solutions.
RAND Institute
for Civil Justice - An affiliated think tank of the RAND Corporation,
the Institute for Civil Justice tries to make the civil justice
system more efficient and more equitable through objective, empirically
based research.
Atlantic Legal
Foundation - The Atlantic Legal Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
public interest law firm whose mission is to advance the rule of
law by advocating limited, effective government, free enterprise,
individual liberty and sound science.
The
Federalist Society - The Federalist Society is a conservative/libertarian
organization of attorneys concerned about the legal system, which
produces many useful publications, including Class
Action Watch.
Lawyers for Civil Justice -
Created by defense trial lawyers and corporate counsel, Lawyers for Civil Justice is a national
coalition supporting excellence, fairness, and improvements within the civil justice system.
National
Chamber Litigation Center - A public-policy law firm of the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Chamber Litigation Center
gets involved, through amicus briefs and third-party litigation,
in cases that affect business, including suits that deal with legal
reform issues.
Southeastern Legal Foundation - An
Atlanta-based public interest law firm, the Southeastern Legal Foundation advocates limited government,
individual economic freedom, and the free enterprise system in the courts of law and public opinion.
Washington Legal Foundation
- WLF brings original lawsuits, files amicus briefs, intervenes
in court cases, and petitions agencies for rulings, as well as publishing
timely legal studies written by expert authors.
American
Medical Association - The AMA supports reforms to the medical
liability system; their website contains much valuable information
in addition to their policy positions.
The
Doctors Company - America's first national, physician-owned
medical malpractice carrier, The Doctors Company supports medical
liability reforms.
Health Care Liability
Alliance - The Health Care Liability Alliance is a national
advocacy coalition that supports effective federal health care liability
reform.
SickofLawsuits.org
- This grassroots campaign designed and supported by Citizens Against
Lawsuit Abuse groups and other civil justice reform groups across
the country attempts "to help raise awareness of the healthcare
litigation epidemic affecting all Americans."
Jury
Verdict Research - Jury Verdict Research maintains the only
nationwide database of more than 213,000 plaintiff and defense verdicts
and settlements resulting from personal injury claims.
Stanford
Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse - The Securities
Class Action Clearinghouse provides detailed information relating
to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action
securities fraud litigation. The Clearinghouse maintains an Index
of Filings of 1990 issuers that have been named in federal class
action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Clearinghouse also contains copies
of more than 6000 complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related
materials filed in these cases.




